Actor Jussie’s Smollett’s attorneys say that all criminal charges have been dropped after Smollett had an “emergency” court appearance in Cook County.
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The decision to drop charges is a dramatic reversal in a case in which Chicago police alleged just last monththat Smollett orchestrated his own attack in late January.
“He was a victim who was vilified and made to appear as a perpetrator as a result of false and inappropriate remarks made to the public, causing an inappropriate rush to judgment,” a statement released by his attorneys Tina Glandian and Patricia Brown Holmes reads.
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